[Comparison of the immune response in patients with alcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis].

UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to compare the features of immune response in patients with alcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. MATERIALS: There was investigated immune status of 46 patients with alcoholic liver disease and 34 patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. RESULTS: It was found the resemblance of the immune regulation of pathogenesis in both diseases. It was also established that in the history of alcoholic liver disease necrosis starts earlier because of loosing immune regulation of programmed cell death. This leads to forming liver cirrhosis in younger age.